By MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer Republicans and Democrats awaited the outcome of vote-counting for crucial U.S. House districts in California on Wednesday, as the GOP moved within one win of maintaining control of the chamber next year.

A range of experts, from Nobel Prize-winning economists to an internet-famous menswear writer, have a message for Americans who voted for Donald Trump based on his promises to bring down prices: This likely won’t go how you want.

Google’s payments to influence state government surged to almost $11 million from July through September, nearly 90 times more than the same period last year, making it the highest-spending lobbyist employer in California in the third quarter.

Courtney Storer keeps adding to her list of accolades. Serving as culinary producer and co-executive producer on the Emmy-winning show The Bear keeps her busy as does her Substack, Coco's Kitchen, and her culinary platform,

GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic, and SLGT2 inhibitor drugs like Jardiance have been linked with a lower risk of a second stroke or a heart attack in stroke survivors.

As in many marketplaces, getting a great deal at a farmers market is often the fruit of forming relationships with the vendors.

Mountain lions in greater Los Angeles are proactively shifting their activity to avoid interacting with cyclists, hikers, joggers and other recreationists, finds a study from the University of California,

For the final installment of our "Tricks of the Trade" series, we hunt for fruit and vegetables at the Santa Monica farmers market.

Mountain lions in the greater Los Angeles region are consciously shifting their activity to avoid interacting with human residents, a new study has found.

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